Bird Flu Patient in Louisiana Becomes First Human Death in Current H5N1 Outbreak
The case in Louisiana is the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. during this current outbreak, but there was a death in Mexico back in May 2024 in a patient with no known exposure to farm animals. The case, much like the patient in Louisiana, was in a person with other underlying conditions, though it’s not clear what those may have been.
NEW ORLEANS, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – The State of Louisiana identified a case of a domestic cat with bird flu in New Orleans, according to a spokesperson from the city’s Health Department and ...
The first case of bird flu was confirmed in New Orleans last week after the H5N1 virus was detected in a house cat on Jan. 14, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. The ...
A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with bird flu has died of the disease, the Louisiana Department of Public Health reported Monday. The patient, the first in the U.S. to die from ...
No human cases of bird flu have been confirmed in New York, but the virus has emerged among animals. Public health leaders ...
Avian influenza A (H5N1) has mutated, so the symptoms of bird flu could change as more people get sick in 2025.
When a pathogen — any organism that causes a disease — jumps species, scientists get nervous because its genetic makeup can ...
Authorities have detected a second case of bird flu at a poultry farm in Georgia's Elbert County. The case was found less ...
"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...
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